For those at the conference, here is the slide deck we presented. Later, we'll provide the notes in the form of a full article.

If you're a web designer and/or developer and/or need a superior web platform, you should be in Baltimore on April 1 and 2 for DNNcon. We have 3 good reasons, all from Chicago DNN!

To drive traffic to your website from Facebook, you copy/paste your website address into the status line, and voila! Facebook puts a picture and a description. But wait, that's the wrong picture! Here's the OpenGraph way to fix that.

Some web developers are hackers (we mean that in the nicest way). They hand-code the website to meet the custom need. We applaud that; more power to them. But we're integrators and we like it when several standard, well-supported components can be artfully combined to solve the problem. Here's a great example.

While everyone wants an insurance company to have a sizable and solid foundation, no one likes to work with a nameless and faceless organization. Brian Berce has been with Farmers Insurance since 1996. He already has a corporate web presence, but he wanted a personal website to help build relationships with people in his community.

His new website provides all the important details clients are looking for regarding their insurance questions while also giving Brian a blog platform to talk about local news and events. And of course he has a personable About page so folks can "meet" him on line.

Sprocket Websites is happy to help Brian introduce himself to new clients. If your business is similar, call us to talk about building a personal website for you.

On Wednesday, May 13, I gave a talk for Naper Launch, an initiative of the Naperville Public Library to help entrepreneurs launch businesses, in honor of Small Business Week. Here's how it went.

Have you been reading an article on a website and after a rather clever, profound, or newsworthy sentence, you see a link to "Tweet this?" If so, you may have run into a clicktotweet link. Would you like to do this yourself? We walk through the steps for you.

Sprocket Websites is very pleased to offer a website package designed expressly for authors. The website shows off the author's books and keeps his or her followers aware of the latest scheduled appearances. Based on the very popular DNN Platform, but all the Content Management System parts are taken care of by our staff. And we've created a remarkable pricing scheme that lets starting and established authors both have professional grade websites.

If you belong to trade associations, chambers of commerce, technical groups, etc., you should tell your website visitors. Why? How? Well, let me tell you.